madmustard: I watched the r. redneck...pretty much a laid-back ol' boy...I know a guy who could be his twin who lives in Indiana but who ain't near as smart !!Time to feed the pooches...Science Diet canned beef for the Lab and a fried hamburger patty for the Jack Russell terrier.

Craig: Check this link out for fonts available for your blog that aren't available ANYWHERE ELSE. These fonts are by "font legend" Chank Diesel. He has been designing fonts for the IT Community for 20 years. Many of the fonts are free for download and they are unbelievable:

Craig, for us really old folks, BLACK FONT on WHITE is the best. Pale Palettes, while initially nice, would be hard to read. Bob, blue crush is good.

So the cost of the that blog is about the same as owning your own domain name. Hummm, and it appears to give your own domain name by the URL. I'm thinking of developing a web something - page - site for work, and certainly would want to distance it from my blog here. So this is a thought.

Mad, I slept off and on again today. Like you, I'll probably be up for days.

In the fonts ... Go Font Yourself good, ....it's hand writing The Page would have the look of someone at the kitchen counter writing out ''"Crawford's List " on the Tickle template which is papery looking almost a report's note book look .

c-bob...Bart sure has issues with Skinner! Taunting him, prodding him with a giant peanut on the end of a stick...making Skinner eat garbage...bad Bart! The poor old roller coaster! Finished...even Marge could not save it.

So, I get this new software today that generates shapes and animates them ...I put it on U Tube as a test . ..Then I take to the movie studio and start clicking through the 48 different effects on in the movie program and if I put it out as movie with almost every effect laid over it ...It'd be the most interesting thing I ever make ....... Here's Donuts, is there anything they can't do ?

I'm as usual. disgusted with Imus and Company. I hate him and I don't take the word hate lightly.

His MO for the last 20 years is to say, "I like the Guy Personally BUT....." And then tear the person another !@#$%$. He's a smear monger and this morning was nothing more than another example of right wing prejudice gone wild again. The men in his employ are even worse than IMUS. Thats what makes him so bad. He even stated that he is liberal on many issues.....BS.

He's liberal in his right wing opinions and that is all. If he had an ounce of fairness, this moderate voter (me) would not be commenting.

Mornin' all, so Craig's et up by beta blogger? Hope things get back to blogger's normal screwed up state soon. There's a little ditty out there in medialand about the NIE that has to have Bushco cringing - it verifies what those of us foulmouthed liberal bloggers have been saying, that we are at greater threat from a stronger bunch of islamic radicals than we were before we set up Iraq as a recruiting tool and have given afghanistan the go ahead to up opium production and house and protect the Taliban and al quaeda (complete with fearless leader UBL). I just hope the Dems take this and run with it for the midterms - best I can tell, the idiots are trying to run on the economy in the face of falling gasoline prices and a housing buyer's market. (Hmm, let's see"deficit" or "terrorist" - which one has a better ring? Sorry boys, it's the T word - embrace it and run on it). By the way, isn't this stuff supposed to be secret?

An open letter to Howard Dean(please feel free to add your own suggestions)

OK, Howie, listen up. You have two issues to run on this fall - don't screw this up. The first is the NIE report from April saying that we're less secure and that terror is at a higher level than it was before 9/11. Please at least mention this. In fact, have every dem running for a seat make it a centerpiece of their campaign. The second is that the Repugs can't do shit when they have the opportunity. Congress has fiddled with stupid crap like Terry Schiavo and keeping the french from eating our horses, but can't seem to address the issues people who vote but don't hod office care about - like passing budgets or bills on immigration and border security, or lobbying reform or just about anything else that might actually have some effect on the issues that threaten us most. You might also point out that one of the major reasons nothing happens in Washington anymore is that the Repugs who have half a brain are stalling the legislative process by joining with Democrats (remember the group of 14?) or by outright defying the White House torture merchantsand keeeping anything other than torture of prisoners from being discussed and acted upon. It appears you are considering trying to make the economy the centerpiece of the fall congressional elections. How should I put this? DON'T DO THAT. Most people's wages have not gone up in the 6 years Bushco has had to f*ck up this country, and the rich have gotten much richer in that time period, but gas prices are falling along with housing prices and mortgage interest rates, so if the vote their pocketbooks, voters may just be happier than you seem to think. I know you're very smart and all, but you didn't win your last election, and it would be nice to reverse the trend that you were a part of and get something that looks like balance back into Washington. Hope this helps.Sincerely, Pogo

P.S. If you read this at jamie's place, here's an article about the do nothing congress. Feel free to use it.

Pogo ...Roger that ..... Bush went to Iraq with a 5 gal. gas can, and a book of matches. He poured the gas all over the country and started lighting matches .Then he stood in the middle of the flames and repeated. " Stay the Course..Stay the Course."

Jamie I can get to the page that tells about the clocks but I can't get any of the links there to open .... just blank pages with the address in the window. My donut movie is up. I used Homer Simpson as a tag . So when it came up the first time there are all the Simpson clips too .... 196,732 of them .

Just so you know what it is supposed to do: When you move your cursor everything starts flying around. When you leave it still, the date spins around the outside. The clock tells the time for your area, and the hands move.

Oddly enough I'm in the same boat as you. When I wrote the clock page I was running OS-9 and I was able to arrange for a nice Java environment in several of my browsers. Since I have moved to OS-X I can't make anything work. If you figure out a way to see them I'd appreciate hearing about it and I'd give you credit for the explanation on the clocks page. Downloading and installing the Java module doesn't seem to help -- apparently there are "dialects" of Java and they are mutually incomprehensible, or something.

One section of the Department of Defense is refusing to submit a budget. Apparently, Rumsfield has authorized a $25 Billon shortfall (Can't let the American public know how much this is really costing).

Apparently this is the first time there has been an outright refusal to submit a requested budget.

I was walkng the dogs a short while ago in a section of the park that I usually don't get to. I found a Buckeye tree and tried to find a few buckeyes for my daughter, a grad of The Ohio State University. Someone had beat me to it! The ground was covered with the outer shells...empty of the nuts. I did manage to find five buckeyes...that's all. I guess I shouldn't be surprised as the OSU Buckeyes are #1 in the land of college football and I am in Ohio. The football fans make necklaces of buckeyes around here. I live where Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio all come together. I went to Indiana University and I root for the Michigan Wolverines of Ann Arbor. They're good at football this year, too. During the televised Wolverines game Saturday, they showed a few scenes in and outside of my fave deli in the world, Zingermans. Great...make that fantastic sandwiches and even the broth and matzoh balls are special.

About Me

Lifelong Gypsy 21 schools and continued roaming with working career. Seem to have settled down somewhat now that I've reached "senior" status, but still find all maps and schedules fascinating. Favorite movies: Two For The Road, 84 Charing Cross Road, Same Time Next Year, To Kill A Mockingbird, Torchsong Trilogy. TV: Doctor Who & Torchwood on BBC America plus Treme - Game of Thrones

Quotes

"Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." - Buddha

“Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please—this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time—and squawk for more!

So learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you. (This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)”